Category Archives: Comparative philosophy

CFP: Upcoming Leadership and the Good Life Conference 2025

West Chester University’s “Life Worth Living” Leadership Hub, in collaboration with Yale’s Center for Faith and Culture, is now accepting proposals for the upcoming Leadership & The Good Life Conference in June 2025. Philosophers are invited to submit paper, presentation, and panel proposals that explore philosophical concepts of the “good life,” including ethical theory and applied ethical topics, as well as related pedagogy.

Submissions: abstracts (300-500 words) should be submitted via email to ZWOOTEN@wcupa.edu with the subject line: LWL PROPOSAL by March 15, 2025.

To learn more information of the program, visit the LWLLeadershipHub site or read this pdf.

Workshop: Chinese Philosophy and World Philosophy

Tsinghua University is hosting a teaching workshop on comparative philosophy on December 11th, 2024. Based on each researcher’s unique approach and character, the workshop will discuss whether and how educators can train students to form a knowledge community with a shared awareness of the field’s current state, methodologies, and relevant issues that transcend geographical and cultural boundaries. Additionally, the workshop also aims to explore how we can “attend to others” and collaborate more effectively.

Date: 11th December 2024
Time: 8:00-10:00 am (Beijing Time)
Language: English
Location: Room 227, Mengmin Wei Humanities Building
Voov meeting: 247-782-797 (no password)

Please find more information regarding the workshop in this pdf.

 

Book of Interest: Contemporary Politics and Classical Chinese Thought, Toward Globalizing Political Philosophy

Oxford has recently published Contemporary Politics and Classical Chinese Thought: Toward Globalizing Political Philosophy. The book takes up the call of globalizing contemporary applied political philosophy and applies classical Chinese thought to a series of current sociopolitical issues, including the construction and deconstruction of political narratives; the legal standing of robots; the relationships among people, communities, and the environment; the funding (or defunding) of police; the status of private militias; and the question of justified revolution in liberal democracies, among others. To make progress on the thorniest sociopolitical issues facing the world, it is imperative to bring these previously underutilized and understudied resources to bear; only then might societies attain justice, peace, and flourishing equally enjoyed by all.

To access the book for further reading, please visit this site.

Book of Interest: Ethical Theory in Global Perspective

SUNY has published Michael Hemmingsen, ed., Ethical Theory in Global Perspective, an edited collection that aims to be an easy-to-teach introduction to ethical theory from a uniquely global perspective. In addition to key Western ethical theories—such as virtue ethics, consequentialism, various deontological theories, and care ethics—moral theories from a range of East Asian, South Asian, and African philosophical traditions and schools are also discussed, including Akan philosophy, Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, and both orthodox and heterodox schools of classical Indian philosophy.

To view the table of contents, read an excerpt, or to obtain copies, please visit this site.

Conference: The Waves that Follow (New Books in Chinese Philosophy)

Tsinghua University will hold a hybrid conference titled “The Waves that Follow: New Books in Chinese Philosophy” from December 7 to 9, 2024. The conference invites young scholars worldwide who have published new books in the field of Chinese philosophy within the past one to two years to share fresh perspectives, new methods, and innovative research directions from their works, aiming to foster exchange and development. Additionally, senior scholars who have devoted many years to Chinese philosophy will engage in in-depth discussions on the research presented by this new generation.

Time: 8 December, 2024/ Beijing time (UTC +08:00), 8:00 – 18:30

Venue: Room 124, Humanity school, Tsinghua University
Zoom Meeting ID: 938 634 5943

Find the information on speakers and event arrangements in this pdf.

Comparative Essays on Hume, Confucianism, and Buddhism

A new issue of Hume Studies (49:2) includes three comparative essays that look at Hume’s moral, aesthetic and epistemological projects on taste, tradition and the self, side by side with Confucian texts such as Mengzi, Analects, and Xunzi, as well as works on Buddhist concepts like the two truths. Please read more to see information regarding the essays: Continue reading →

Call for discussants: APA webinar on comparative philosophy

The APA offers an on-demand webinar series featuring engaging discussions on topics of interest to philosophers. Each webinar typically lasts one hour and brings together three to four philosophers to explore a specific theme from diverse perspectives. The APA strives to include a wide range of topics and viewpoints.

Eirik Harris and Henrique Schneider plan to host a webinar in May 2025, focusing on the contemporary state of comparative philosophy and emphasizing Chinese philosophy. The APA is seeking 2–3 philosophers to join this discussion.

If you are interested in participating, please email hschneider@gmx.ch by January 25, 2025. Include three topics you would like to discuss in the webinar.

CFP: Envisioning Futures: Decolonial and World Philosophical Approaches

The Department of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is pleased to announce the international conference Envisioning Futures: Decolonial and World Philosophical Approaches, scheduled for November 21-22, 2025. The university will provide accommodation for all participants for three days. The conference organisers are negotiating the possibility of publishing a selection of the accepted papers in a high-profile philosophy journal.
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This Friday, NOVEMBER 8: “Aspiration, Ambition, and Confucian Debates on Human Nature” (online session)

THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY

Welcomes you to an ONLINE meeting:

Hannah Kim (The University of Arizona):

« Aspiration, Ambition, and Confucian Debates on Human Nature »

With responses from Timothy Connolly (East Stroudsburg University)

ABSTRACT: A standard introduction to classical Confucianism teaches that Mengzi thought “human nature is good” and Xunzi, that “human nature is bad”. But the exact nature of their disagreement is subject to ongoing debate, with some underplaying the disagreement (they just mean different things by “human nature”) while others take the disagreement to be about the nature of agency, moral education, or dispositions. In this talk, I’ll argue that Agnes Callard’s distinction between ambition and aspiration helps us clarify what the disagreement is about. Mengzi thought humans need to fully pursue the values they already have, while Xunzi thought humans need to aspire towards values they don’t have and aren’t predisposed to. This account has the benefit of capturing Mengzi’s and Xunzi’s respective views on agency and education and providing Xunzi with a picture of moral motivation that even a selfish agent could develop.

DATE: November 8, 2024

TIME: 5:30-7:30pm EST

Zoom info below:

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